One would expect Williamson's average will improve, and bats well when we have other people who can actually bat in the side i.e. Taylor. Guptill still remains a mystery as to whether he's up to it or whether he'll go the way the rest of recent openers (tried, failed, re-tried, fail, re-try, one success, fail and dropped for good) while the others (not incl. Baz and Franks) are the right side of 30 and if dropped will probably wander back into the side at some point.

So you'd think if they're waiting for averages to fall the current players are a few Tests away at least. And who else is knocking on the door, waiting to come in? Of those not already tried (Redmond current leading domestic runscorer, Fulton, Papps and Yovich there abouts) it's Munro, Carl Cachopa and Luke Ronchi. And if Ronchi gets a run you just know Watling will be the one out, despite him being a better bat than Flynn (IMO), and about level with Brownlie.

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Daniel Flynn can't be put in the same bracket as the rest yet imo. Was competent in SL and looked good last night before he was forced to slog at 9 down.

I'm feeling very apathetic atm itbt.

Originally Posted by Bahnz

I need u like Henry Nicholls needs batting school
He was terrible in that series
I need u like Ross Taylor needed to be fit
He's way better than Henry Nicholls
And now all I can think about is your smile
and that ****** test series too
Losing to Australia sucked and I miss you

And change how we train players, too. Batting techniques throughout the country seem quite rotten.

Yeah, and when they do have a good technique we try and coach it out of them:

Over-coached as a teen, Boam is essentially still a very orthodox player. But at the behest of Firebirds coach Jamie Siddons, Boam is now trying to become a hitter too, particularly in the Twenty20 format.